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The case for regime change in the USA
A president and respected physicist of a Californian technologies company dips into journalism to make his case for a more transparent United States of America.
"Strange times are those in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and a fool" - Plato
"And those who perform jihad for us, we shall certainly guide them in our ways, and God is surely (…)

Citing a dire need to protect ocean resources from exploitation and pollution, a presidential commission is urging creation of a federal oceans trust fund from oil and gas royalties.
The recommendation is one of dozens in the commission’s nearly 500-page draft report, the first such sweeping review of U.S. ocean policy in 35 years. The Ocean Policy Trust Fund — similar to the Highway Trust Fund for transportation projects — would come from the annual $5 billion in bonus bid and (…)

We’re coming. From New York and Oregon, Idaho and Texas, Minnesota, California, New Mexico - from all parts of the country by the bus full, in caravans, on planes, by train, we’re coming. Women who’ve never done anything like this in their lives. Women of all ages and races and sexual orientations. By the hundreds of thousands, we’re converging on Washington, D.C. on April 25 for the "March for Women’s Lives," a march not only for reproductive freedom, but for justice and dignity.
We’re (…)

Iraq Shows the West and its New Liberal Imperialists have Forgotten the Lessons of History
Two very different innovations have dominated warfare in the past 60 years. The first was the invention of nuclear weapons, which brought to an end 150 years of a military system based on total war. Nuclear weapons have, at least until now, been the preserve of an exclusive minority, headed by the United States. Even today, only eight nations admit to possessing them. The second innovation could not (…)

Dear Friends and Comrades:
I just noticed that John Negroponte is to be named the first US Ambassador to the new and improved Iraq after the June 30th transfer of power.
When I was a younger man, I spent a little while doing some solidarity work with the Catholic Church in Central America. Throughout my sojourns in various works of the progressive wing of the Church in Central America, a name of a gringo priest kept on coming up. Rank and file lay folks, priests, and religious would (…)

By John H. Hovis, General President United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) April 2004
The political, economic and social pressures exerted on organized labor and working people are massive. The growing union vs. non-union gap serves to increase pressures on our respective unions by both employers and government. Given the circumstances it would be difficult for anyone in the labor movement to find fault with the premise that the answer to the myriad of problems lies (…)

Dear All,
We are pleased to inform you that you can now purchase all of Marcel
Khalife’s available works directly through his website at www.marcelkhalife.com using
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We are also pleased to announce that Marcel Khalife has released his first
DVD, Voyageur" and a new CD release titled "Mouda’aba/Caress".
"Voyageur" is a 3 hour long DVD documentary and retrospective on his life and (…)

Spain’s new Socialist prime minister, moving swiftly to fulfill a campaign pledge, today ordered the withdrawal of Spanish troops from a U.S.-led coalition in Iraq as soon as possible. His predecessor denounced the action as a victory for terrorists who bombed trains in Madrid three days before last month’s elections.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose Socialist Party scored a surprising win in the March 14 elections, announced the pullout order in a televised speech hours after his new (…)

And it’s not just the usual suspects taking shots. The fire is coming from feature film, theatre and TV
NEW YORK — It was an unusual occasion for a political statement. On Wednesday morning, the day after George W. Bush hosted a prime-time news conference to defend the fuzzy state of affairs in Iraq, architect James Polshek took the podium at a Brooklyn Museum preview to speak of the challenges in completing a multimillion dollar glass-and-steel renovation to the museum entrance. (…)

There was no popular clamour for war. If we had not gone to war, few Americans would even have noticed
This has been a rough time for Americans. Just a year ago, Americans and Iraqis triumphantly pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. A year later, a spreading anti- American insurgency ripped across Iraq, accompanied by Iraqi mobs mutilating dead Americans and shouting hatred of the occupiers. An American year of miscalculations and misjudgements seems to have led Iraq into a (…)